Welcome to Belgium’s most prestigious awards for corporate excellence in human capital management. This ‘Best Employers’ segment addresses the employer organizations from the private and public sector that deliver tremendous excellence in workforce management, meaningful employee experience, outstanding operational effectiveness, purposeful diversity, and innovative people-centric initiatives.

More specifically, this segment examines how the foremost HR departments are adapting their operating models, repurposing their workplace, improving their workforce agility and skills resilience, accelerating their HR transformation, adopting new technologies, and embracing people centricity in a smart way.

Briefly said: the Best Employers Awards 2025 will detect and celebrate the corporate organizations that are going the extra mile by taking on the people challenge not in a proactive mode to sustain their human and organizational capabilities in the long run and by addressing the pivotal events that are critical to their business and to their people as well.

The nominees of the Best Employers Awards 2025 are selected in 2 different ways:

• A list of 20 companies ranging from large to small organizations and spanning a variety of industries is built upon deep research and insights gathered from members of the CHRO Executive Circle and ARC Research. The selection is based upon recognized achievements in building significant HRM capabilities to face current and future people-related challenges and opportunities.
• Any other employer organization -small, medium-sized or large- is welcome to apply for joining this Nominees list by sending the Jury an application and a brief executive summary of the initiative or program they propose to submit.

Cases presented must describe clear evidence of achievements and deliverables, milestones, completion roadmap and metrics, the key lessons learned for the future, sustainability over time, and the critical success factors.

Award winners will be revealed during the HR Excellence Awards ceremony on 27 March 2025.

The Jury is the guarantor of the strict appliance and respect of the rules, as well as the full objectivity of the decisions made. The Jury gathers a selection of HR and business experts carefully chosen for their knowledge and experience in human capital management, business governance and/or organizational effectiveness.